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Ultimate Fighting Championship comes to the New Zealand Mint’s Chibi range with five fighters making the transition
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Ultimate Fighting Championship comes to the New Zealand Mint’s Chibi range with five fighters making the transition

Ultimate Fighting Championship comes to the New Zealand Mint’s Chibi range with five fighters making the transition

By Mik Woodgate|2023-12-13T20:12:41+00:00December 13th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Sport, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Ultimate Fighting Championship comes to the New Zealand Mint's Chibi range with five fighters making the transition The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation, hosting competitive events worldwide. Established in 1993, the UFC has become the pinnacle of MMA, showcasing elite fighters from various disciplines. Fighters compete in a caged [...]

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Cassette Tape 60th Anniversary coloured silver coin (2023 World Coin Appreciation)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-12-12T11:36:31+00:00December 12th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Science, Silver, Niue Island, World Coin Appreciation|

Last October, World Coin Appreciation (WCA) released a neat coin shaped like a miniature cassette tape, to honour the memory of Lou Ottens, a Dutch inventor working for the tech giant Philips, who created the cassette system in 1963, and who died in 2021. Now, they're back with the concept, this time marking 60 years since the [...]

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Camelot: Arthur Pendragon Bullion Edition 1oz silver coin (2023 Asturmint)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-30T04:02:15+00:00November 30th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Bullion, Asturmint, Silver, Niue Island|

We've seen a few high-end coins make the transition to bullion over the last couple of years, but it still remains a relatively uncommon thing. A recent offering was the White Horse, from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, put out by the Carpathian Mint, although without a real denomination. Some of the backers of that [...]

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The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther
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The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-27T10:50:51+00:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: History, Military, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther In 2022, the Czech Mint debuted a new four-coin series featuring one of my favourite thing - tanks. This isn't a popular subject in numismatic circles, with military hardware seemingly less popular than ever, [...]

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The Penguin & Sabine Wren Chibi silver coins (2023 New Zealand Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-21T12:34:48+00:00November 21st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Chibi continues its relentless pursuit of market domination with a pair of new issues for two of the biggest franchises that make up the broad range. The first is the 16th in the DC Comics subset, and features one of Batman's most popular adversaries, The Penguin, complete with monocle and dapper suit. The second is from [...]

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Ultimate Fighting Championship 30th Anniversary silver coin (2023 New Zealand Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-16T21:53:20+00:00November 16th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Sport, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation, hosting competitive events worldwide. Established in 1993, the UFC has become the pinnacle of MMA, showcasing elite fighters from various disciplines. Fighters compete in a caged octagon, employing a combination of striking and grappling techniques. The UFC has gained global popularity for its intense, unpredictable bouts, [...]

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World of Cryptids Yeti & Wendigo silver coins (2023 Lithuanian Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-15T21:48:09+00:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Lithuanian Mint, Niue Island|

A quick, and final heads up that the in our view, outstanding ‘World of Cryptids’ series, based on the work of Lithuanian artist, Laimutė Varkalaitė, is drawing to a close. The Lithuanian Mint has released the final two coins for order. Released through 2023 at the rate of about one-per-month, it takes a left field look at [...]

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The Mandalorian Mythosaur Emblem shaped silver coins (2023 New Zealand Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-13T19:51:51+00:00November 13th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Another new Star Wars series from the New Zealand Mint has debuted, this time taking the shaped, antique-finished format from the ship-shaped series, the latest of which is Bo-Katan's Gauntlet Starfighter, and applying it to an emblem. The coin features the Mandalorian Mythosaur, popularised in the hit TV show, and likely to become a more important thing moving [...]

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The Phoenix 1 oz silver coin (2023 T&S Coin)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-11T00:44:40+00:00November 11th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, T&S Coins|

New producer, T&S Coin, have been impressing us lately with a high quality selection of new releases, all sporting a fine sense of style, mainly based around an antique finish, with, in all but one case, gilded highlights. All of them have also tipped the scales at two-ounces, but that doesn't mean that every coin will fit [...]

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Numiartis returns to the Haiyuantang Zodiac Fountain with a second coin, this time featuring the tiger
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Numiartis returns to the Haiyuantang Zodiac Fountain with a second coin, this time featuring the tiger

Numiartis returns to the Haiyuantang Zodiac Fountain with a second coin, this time featuring the tiger

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-10T09:01:07+00:00November 10th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Inserts, Silver, Niue Island, Numiartis|

Numiartis returns to the Haiyuantang Zodiac Fountain with a second coin, this time featuring the tiger When this series debuted last year, we likened it to an Asian Queen's Beasts in concept, and with the addition of this second design, we stand by that more than ever. Just as the Queen's Beasts sat outside Hampton Court [...]

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